Industry 4.0
- Industry 4.0 has had a strong influence on the debate on the digitalization of industrial processes, despite being criticized for lacking a proper definition. However, Industry 4.0 might offer a huge chance to align the goals of a sustainable development with the ongoing digital transformation in industrial development. The main contribution of this paper is therefore twofold. We provide a de-facto definition of the concept "Industry 4.0" from a sociotechnical perspective based on its most often cited key features, as well as a thorough review of how far the concept of sustainability is incorporated in it.
| Author details: | Grischa BeierORCiDGND, André UllrichORCiDGND, Silke NiehoffORCiD, Malte Reißig, Matthias Habich |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120856 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1786 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of cleaner production |
| Subtitle (English): | how it is defined from a sociotechnical perspective and how much sustainability it includes - a literature review |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/06/20 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/04/17 |
| Tag: | Industry 4.0; definition; digitalization; manufacturing; sociotechnical approach; sustainability |
| Volume: | 259 |
| Article number: | 120856 |
| Number of pages: | 13 |
| Funding institution: | German Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchFederal Ministry of; Education & Research (BMBF) [01UU1705A/B] |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
